October 16, 2023 Russia / Россия
The Amsterdam-based telco Operator group Veon has completed the sale of its Russian business to the senior management team of the PJSC VimpelCom (Beeline Russia) led by CEO Alexander Torbakhov. successfully exiting the Russian market. Veon Group CEO Kaan Terzioglu said, "The closing of the sale...
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September 26, 2023 Czech Republic
Czech telecoms firm České Radiokomunikace (CRA) recently announced it's undergoing construction of a new data center campus on its site at the Cukrák transmitter, located in Jílovište to the south of Prague. The telecoms firm noted that the campus will offer a capacity of up to 78 racks at 3kW...
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August 22, 2023 Poland
A fiber company owned by the Polish government is constructing a data center in Gliwice. 24Gliwice reported that the Silesian Metropolitan Network (SSM) had purchased land at the intersection of Bojkowska and Toruska Streets in Gliwice. SMM is a municipal government ICT network operator that was...
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August 14, 2023 Moscow / Москва́
The state-owned Nuclear Energy Corporation of Russia has acquired a Moscow data center. C.News.ru reports that Rosatom's Atomdata Center division has acquired a Moscow data center under construction for $237 million. The Moscow-2 facility, situated on 215,280 square feet in the Southern...
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July 20, 2023 Equinix Sofia SO1
The expansion of one of Equinix's Bulgarian data centers in Sofia has been concluded. This week, the company announced the completion of the second phase of its SO2 data center in the capital of Bulgaria. The development, which doubles the site's capacity to 700 servers, cost $12 million,...
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July 17, 2023 Russia / Россия
Obit has shared plans for a new data center in St. Petersburg, which will be located on a land plot home to a complex of vertical farms. The company is set to invest around two billion rubles ($22.1m) in the project, which will offer a capacity for 512 racks, with excess heat released from the...
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May 22, 2023 Russia / Россия
Russia's Wildberries has announced the launch of its first data center, located in the Moscow region. Spanning 16,000 sqm, the facility offers 3.5 MW of capacity. The facility is the company's first and is based at its logistics hub.The project has seen an investment of 1.2 billion rubles and is...
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April 30, 2023 Poland
According to Samsung Electronics Poland, the company has begun selling data center SSDs in the nation. Both the PM893 solid state drive, which is based on SATA technology, and the PM9A3 SSD, which uses MVMe, are now accessible to consumers. Both TD Synnex and AB are carrying out their activities...
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April 19, 2023 Russia / Россия
Key Point and Rostelecom are teaming up to build a new data center on Sakhalin Island, off the east coast of Russia, north of Japan. In September 2022, Key Point signed an agreement with Sakhalin Oblast Governor Valery Igorevich to construct a data center in the Sakhalin Region, without providing...
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April 18, 2023 Russia / Россия
Key Point Technologies, a Russian data center operator, has broken ground on a new facility in Novosibirsk. The data center is set to be one of the largest in Siberia, with a total capacity of 8MW. The Tier III quality facility will provide 8MW at completion. First announced in 2022, the first...
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March 21, 2023 Prague
Seznam.cz has launched a new data center outside Prague, in Benátky nad Jizerou, known as 'Nagoya'. The Czech Internet portal outlined that the facility spans around 1,200 square meters, with a capacity of 3MW across two data halls with 200 racks. Work began on construction in February 2022. The...
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March 17, 2023 Bulgaria
Yettel Bulgaria and CETIN Bulgaria, part of the PPF Telecom Group, have announced the signing of a 10-year solar Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Electrohold. Through this deal, the company will offtake energy from an upcoming unnamed 123 MW photovoltaic plant. This will reportedly cover...
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February 16, 2023 Russia / Россия
The Russian Federation has announced its intent to launch a crypto-mining facility worth over $12.3 million (900 million rubles) in the coming months. To be situated in Buryatia, a Russian republic in eastern Siberia, the facility, upon completion, is pegged to contain 30,000 mining...
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February 06, 2023 Russia / Россия
Key Point has announced the launch of a new data center in Primorsky Krai in far east Russia. The Russian data center developer has outlined that at full build-out, the facility will have capacity for 880 racks and 10MW. Its first phase saw the construction of two modules with a total capacity of...
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January 27, 2023 Moscow / Москва́
3data has announced its expansion in Moscow, after developing its 3data P6 data center, located at 125445, Moscow, ul. Pravoberezhnaya, 6A/5. According to the company, the facility is built to Tier III standards and accompanies its 20+ facilities dotted across the Moscow region.The company...
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January 05, 2023 Russia / Россия
Keypoint is expanding in Yekaterinburg, it has announced, with the addition of a new facility, spanning 3,200 sqm (34,450 sq ft). It will reportedly be built inside an existing building and constructed with the aim of achieving Tier III certification, developed in partnership with Russian telco...
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November 03, 2022 Croatia
Hrvatski Telekom has announced a ten-year virtual Power Purchase Agreement with Liburana doo. This vPPA, the first of its kind in Croatia, will see the construction of the 'Mazin Gračac' wind farm, which is forecast to produce 50 GWh per year. Speaking about the deal, Kostas Nebis, President of...
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September 20, 2022 Lithuania
Bite Lithuania has announced that it has opened a new data center outside Vilnius in Lithuania, taking the company's total data center operations to six. According to the telco, the facility is Tier III certified, and powered by renewable energy. Speaking about the expansion, Gintas Butėnas, CEO...
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August 23, 2022 Poland
The government of Poland is looking to develop a National Data Center. This will comprise three fiber-linked facilities. The development comes after a draft bill document was published highlighting plans to build a ‘National Data Processing Center.’ According to the document, the plan is to...
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July 13, 2022 Moscow / Москва́
Russian IT company Nubes has announced that it is developing a Tier III standard data center in Moscow, Russia. The data center is scheduled to be in operation in Q4 2022. The data center will be located in the Biryulyovo Vostochnoye district of Moscow. It is also designed to accommodate 282...
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